Pro RPG Audio: Black Mud Swamp (audio product)

Professional Golden Reel and Emmy-nominated sound designer Wes Otis brings you richly detailed audio for your tabletop games. They’re mixed to be played in the background, adding ambience to your storytelling, LARP or board game without being a distraction. Wes has taken his 30 years of game mastering experience and 15 years of post production experience to craft each location. Plate Mail Game professional audio tracks are the best background loops for your adventures. Combine them with our other tracks to score your entire campaign. Check out our other audio and PDFs by simply searching Plate Mail Games.

as with every audio product from Plate Mail Games this has a multitude of sounds layered together to create a soundscape. You can easily visualize the swamp; the bugs, the mud, the filthy water, that movement that caught you by surprise.
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How do you know this soundscape represents a swamp, other than the title? Mainly from the buzzing insects. The mud is implied by occasional "sticky" footfalls. Why is the mud black? Well, because the title says so, and because it's nighttime, [...]

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